Monday, June 25, 2012

On Saturday, I visited Goodwill. I told myself I was only going in to look. Just for a second. (That's all it takes, isn't it?) I don't need a cart. If I get a cart, that'll make me put stuff in it and then I'll buy that stuff and then we'll have too much stuff again and need to get rid of that stuff. The circle is vicious.

Nope, I'm just going to look.

Riiiiiiight.

Now, I have to tell you that I've planned to buy new stools for my kitchen for a while now and hadn't yet found a set I absolutely had to have...until Saturday. Because Saturday I found these.

Ignore the peeling vinyl, I'm going to re-cover them.

The best part?

$3.38! Each!!

At that price, you'd better believe I trotted up to the front of the store, grabbed myself a cart and shoved those suckers in it faster than a ...faster than...faster than something already fast performing a difficult task IMPRESSIVELY fast.

Those stools were MINE. I staked my claim. After giving me a bit of trouble, I finally convinced the bar stools
that they needed to come home with me and they fit into the cart
obligingly. This is important. If you put something in your cart, that's like writing your name all over your school supplies or licking the last piece of pizza. It says "Mine". And no one else will get their grabby Saturday-thrift store mitts on them. Unless they want to tangle. *threatening face*

I was pretty stoked about this stool purchase. Until. Until I found something even better! An air hockey table for only forty bucks! FORTY! I whipped out my cell phone and sent Sugar Daddy a text telling him of our incredible good fortune.

"Rejoice! I have found the air hockey table of our dreams!"

I imagined our days filled with the soft hum of the table and the clickiety-clackity-smack of the puck as we battle for a tiny plastic replica of the Stanley Cup.

"Basement or garage, which do you think it'll fit in?"

He sent back, "Um...no."

WHAT?! Are you kidding me? This is the end-all-be-all of family entertainment devices! We NEED THIS.

"Aw, why not? It's only $40. C'mon, man. I WANT IT!"

As Miss Madison will recognize, he sent back the same message we send to our oldest daughter when she tries to push the envelope: "The answer is no. This will be the last text about this. Further texts will result in consequences."

Now, it's true that we really don't have much room for an air hockey table anyway, and his idle threat had me giggling in the middle of the store, but I couldn't very well respond to Sugar Daddy with anything supporting his logic, so I instead sent:

"*pfft* Dude. That's whack."

Whatever.

I got the stools.

And these are GREAT bar stools!

Sadly, once I got them home I remembered that there is a difference between "bar stool" and "counter stool". That difference is about 4 inches. My counter is simply too short for their awesomeness.

But wait! I have a dad. My dad has major power tools. I'm very hopeful that the combination of my dad and the major power tools will be just the ticket to taking them down a notch...or four.

Call me "Ishmael".

These are the absolutely true stories of Erika - wife, mother of three, and word ninja. When not writing wrongs or battling her nemesis, Dishes Galore, she enjoys poking people with sharp sticks until they make little squeaky sounds. *poke*